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Re: continuously evaluated prompts/environmental variables
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: continuously evaluated prompts/environmental variables |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:42:16 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 03:38:17AM -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Edward Peschko wrote:
> >Is there a way to have the prompt - or any other environmental
> >variable - change in this way, based off external command?
>
> Use single quotes:
>
> PS1='`whoami`@`hostname`'
Just to be clear, this ONLY works for the PS1 variable. Not in any
kind of generalized case.